US Immigration Reform and Its Global Impact : Lessons from the Postville Raid / by E. Camayd-Freixas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camayd-Freixas, Erik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Political science.

Human rights.

Emigration and immigration.

Latin American Culture.

European Politics.

Political Science.

Human Rights.

Human Migration.

Local Subjects:

Latin American Culture.

European Politics.

Political Science.

Human Rights.

Human Migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala. .

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Introduction Think Globally, Act Locally ""; ""1 Hometown to the World: A Brief History of Postville ""; ""2 ICE over the Heartland: The May Raid and Its Costs ""; ""3 Theatrum Juridicum : Inside the Judicial Process ""

""4 The Script and the Scandal: National Legal Reactions """"5 The Orphans of Globalization: A Portrait of the Migrant Workers ""; ""6 The Kosher Jungle: Chronicle of Agriprocessors (1987�2009) ""; ""7 Endgame�The Prelude and the Aftermath: Raids, Race, and Labor before and after Postville ""

""8 The Day Democracy Died: The Decline of the US Constitution """"Conclusion Enlightened Immigration Reform: Toward a Free-Trade Labor Policy ""; ""Postscript ""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781349290109

1349290106

9781137106780

1137106786

OCLC:

862834708